" Celebrate the availability of new benefits"
What slips most minds and what many shoved under rugs, were the hidden details of courtship being withheld from same sex couples for so long. Health benefits, federal benefits, spousal benefits were not for all. 1984 marked the year Berkeley, California granted same sex partners employee benefits. Vermont and Massachusetts guaranteed same sex couples the same benefits as any spouses. Now, the nation demands all couples have the benefits they deserve as life partners.
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